IRANIANS

پای از گلیم درازتر مکنیم

دردنیایی که هر کس یک میکروفون پیدا کرد خواننده می شود، نمی توان به علی آقا خرده گرفت که چرا جامعه شناس شده. اما اگر شناخت ایشان از جامعه ایران مبتنی بر عادات و رفتار همگنان است که ایشان از جزء به کل تعمیم داده است ، بهتر است که ایشان دوستان جدیدی بگیرد.

What a shame!

I've always been disgusted by the people (Iranian) who after coming to the west, forget thier roots!

Back to your roots baba jan. You have an Iranian name (both first and family name) and you are so desperate about your hamvatans?

Do you really mean everything you said about the Americans? Do you know the american society well? Really ?

What a shame!

کجاییم و کجا میتوانستیم باشیم

بیش از ۱۶۰سال پیش این تعالیم به ایرانیان داده شد

اگر علمای شیعه در ۱۶۰ سال پیش این تعلیعمات را رد نکرده بودند 

تحری حقیقت و ترک تقالید

ترک تعصبات

تساوی حقوق زنان و مردان

تعدیل معیشت(توزیع عادلانه‌ی ثروت)

تعلیم و تربیت اجباری عمومی

دین باید سبب الفت و محبت باشد

عالم محتاج نفحات روح‌القدس است

لزوم تطابق دین با علم و عقل

وحدت اساس ادیان

وحدت زبان و خط

وحدت عالم انسانی و صلح عمومی

اگر علمای شیعه در ۱۶۰ سال پیش این تعلیعمات را رد نکرده بودند 

ایا ایران و ایرانی امروز در این وضع بود ؟ 

very interesting observations....

It seems to me that the Iranians in iran have no respect for any person as an individual  . Just look at the way people drive . The motto is "Screw the other guy . I am the one who needs to get ahead" , thus  cars cut you off and get ahead of you with no regard for you or the rules .

On a recent visit to Iran , one morning , I was at the Bank . I was the very  first customer waiting for the teller to show up . All of a sudden this relatively young guy showed up and forced his way through and stood right in front of me . I got upset and asked him why he had no manners . He stepped back with a disgruntled look . Of course ,  I experienced so many similar incidents  in stores and resturants during my stay . Gradually my fury subsided and tried to get used to our people's  rude behaviour .

It seems like this is just part of the Iranian psychological make up that they do not respect you and are rude to you unless they know you . Once they know you they are  overly polite and bombard you with "Taarof" ad nauseam.

I have also noticed that Iranians have a weeknes for the title "Doctor" . He who carries this title , Even if he is an ignorant and  imbacile, gets his ass constantly kissed. He is an authority on everything and is treated  as if he is "tafteh joda bafteh" . Put a doctorate around a dog's neck , and our fellow iranians will bend over and kiss his ass , saying (Bah Bah)        

Another charecteristic of iranains that you do not see in Americans is ( Khaye Malli) . Anyone in authority becomes God because of this . people keep flattering them so much that after a while they develope illusions of grandure .This is why a regular police ( jenab sarvan) during Shah treated people like trash . This  turned Shah into a megalomaniac .  Still the same sick mentality exists . Look at some of the title given ( Hazrate Ayatollah Hojatoll Eslame valmoslemin Arvahona Fadah..... Shahanshahe Azimlshan Alla hazrat Homayooni rahbare alighadre.....)

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امریکایی‌ها را شما چطور منطقی‌ بینید که جاهای دیگر آنان را فارغ از هرگونه منطق بینند !؟

لطفا برای این موارد که نوشتید،چند مثال بزنید تا ما هم از اندوخته‌های حضرت عالی‌ بهره جوییم. وگرنه باور آنان سخت است و بحث در موردشان اتلاف وقت !

خوش باشید.

inaccurate observations

This piece is very inaccurate and observations are wrong. Just look at the  IQ comparison. This is sort of the conversation that you can only hear in taxi cabs or barbershops in Tehran

Interesting!!!

Although I don't believe in such comparison because it is tied to culture bonds and culture is very complex and not possible to be compared in detail, but I agree with many facts on each side. Oh I totally agree with the martyr story. And the crazy thing is that they stick to any stupid idea just because some people died for it. But we see a slight version of it here. Don't you remember when Michele Obama said the life of our troops are waisted, then what happened? and yes, U.S became U.S when they wrote their constitution and stuck to it. It became U.S when they built Hoover dam and Ford and built the whole city of New York. Americans have been great in a glorious period of time but I still don't say that Americans are perfect. They are lost in material life and they are going down. And that does not mean I think they need extreme religion like the East. But united states is so deep in industrial life that actually lost control. Do you seriously watch American TV or go shopping American style every season? These are things keeping me from saying I am American, yes, I am not. May be sticking with imperfect Iranian lifestyle give me hope and courage to do something different! 

سبز سبز تا بهار

you should

really compare Iran with thirld world countries out there, that will  be more objective.....

I do agree on two points:

1) Level of Khorafat in Iran is astonishingly high. (Trust me niether the great reza shah, his son, and superman Mossadegh could do anything about this! ) When an educated person sees picture of khomeini on the moon,we ll the rest is history.

2) You are absloutley right about people in Iran not using "logic" and instead  they are using "Ehsas" as a way of making decsion. It's clear from the moment you land in Tehran that logic is out of the door. otherwise what would explain a phenomena called IRI? you won't be able to sell this crap to 80 of worlds population!.